The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center (SJDC) at Parsons The New School for Design presents The Public Private, the first major New York exhibition of contemporary art that explores the impact of social media and new technologies on the relationship between the public and private realm.

“Social media has radically redefined the boundaries between the public and the private,” said curator Christiane Paul, an associate professor in the School of Media Studies at The New School and the adjunct curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art. “The messages, images, as well as likes and dislikes we share with friends and families are accessible to corporations and subject to commercial and social data mining. Our daily moves are open to various forms of tracking. What was once considered personal and private has become increasingly public in a cultural shift, entailing a reformulation of our identity.”

The artworks brought together in The Public Private—several presented for the first time in the United States—address these issues from psychological, legal, and economic perspectives and use strategies ranging from hacking to self-surveillance to reflect upon the profound changes in our understanding of identity, personal boundaries, and self-representation....

We Happy Few takes place in an alternate, dystopic version of 1964 England. In an interview, Guillaume Provost, Founder of Compulsion Games, discusses the creative process behind the studio’s strong brands.

In the next of our Conference videos is Ingrid Kopp, Senior Consultant at Tribeca Film Institute. In the presentation Prototyping the Organisation Kopp reflects on what she’s learnt from building the interactive department of the Tribeca Film Institute. Tasked with building a structure to fund and support new forms of storytelling, Kopp wanted to introduce some of... View Article

Just as Disney and Lucasfilm have orchestrated it, you must go see Star Wars: The Force Awakens to untangle all of its mysteries. But in the meantime, you can scour Star Wars-themed products on grocery shelves and retail stores to look for more clues.

Stanton's History is a compact volume that presents its story in the form of bite-sized facts and perspectives connected into a rolling narrative, all punctuated with plenty of pictures and an agreeable quota of white space. This all adds up to a volume that can be read at leisure....

"Want to play The Thing From The Future but don’t have your deck of game cards? Hanging out on the space station or at Amundsen-Scott and eager to imagine some future things with your fellow astronauts / scientists / adventurers, but frustrated by the slow pace or total absence of postal delivery service? Just plain broke? Look no further — you can now download and print your own complete version of The Thing From the Future.

The next game from the developers behind 'Monument Valley' is a dream-like VR adventure.

siobhan-o-flynn's insight:

'So Land's End is a single-player game, then, but one that's meant for sharing. It's short, even by mobile standards, with roughly an hour's worth of gameplay in total. Ustwo envisions players taking in the game over a few sessions -- "I think only me and my girlfriend have played it all in one sitting," said Wong. "It's not really intended for that. ... We're totally aiming for a very casual audience. Anyone that could possibly be interested in VR, come check out Land's End."'

Halo 5’s expanded universe elements pull from such a wide variety of stories it’s hard to explain them all. Master Chief’s Blue Squad is the same team from The Fall of Reach, First Strike, and Ghosts of Onyx, which also catalogued Catherine Halsey’s fall from grace from ONI science chief to war criminal. The direct contrast to these stories though, is that reviewer after reviewer insists the Chief and his team have zero personality....

The world is actually getting better. Fifteen years into the 21st century, life on the whole has improved for a great deal of humanity. Access to basic needs like food, shelter, water, education and work has improved.

Nick Fortugno, CCO & Co-Founder at Playmatics, and Lance Weiler, Director at Columbia University Digital Storytelling Lab, kicked off this year’s edition of The Conference with two presentation Story-Driven Innovation and Story Play. Looking at R&D and rapid prototyping, the pair explored the wilds of collaboration, authorship and ownership of stories plus engaged the audience in their... View Article

"Led by the University of Toronto libraries, Open Robarts is an alternate reality game celebrating the tensions between open access and the control of information. Designed by local Toronto artist David Oxley and author Mark Foo, Open Robarts explores themes of information and control, and is meant to draw attention to and celebrate open access forGlobal Open Access Week 2015. There are many ways into the game, even for non-locals. Come check it out and help us unravel the mystery and determine the future of the library!"

"We learned we needed to adjust the way we talk to Snapchat’s audience, because they detect when it’s advertising," says Coca-Cola North America content SVP Emmanuel Seuge. The company’s ads repurposed from TV and other social networks performed poorly during Snapchat’s Live Story for the NCAA Final Four tournament. The soda brand continued working "hand in hand" with Snapchat to develop more ad programs; not long ago, as part of Snapchat’s back-to-high-school Story featuring scenes from kids’ first day of classes, the completion rate for a Snapchat-exclusive 10-second Coke spot shot up to 54%.

"Tokyo Reverse" is a clip from a 9-hour film that's all in reverse and seriously mind-boggling.

siobhan-o-flynn's insight:

Very cool:

"The video is simple but entertaining, as the subject walks through Tokyo city centers, side streets, and even glides up an escalator to overlook a sprawling shopping pavilion. According to the BBC, the full 9-hour video premiered on French TV on March 31st in a segment called Slow TV. One French publication, Le Monde,went so far as to describe the project as a "small revolution." That same article noted that the actor took dance classes to make his movements look natural."

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